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eight to ten lignes long, inserts into a not very deep indentation & often is covered with a 

 small protuberance at its origin. 



Its skin is very smooth. It's lightly tinged with red on the side in the sun. The other 

 side turns yellow when the fruit ripens. 



Its flesh & juice are good though not as good as most other Bergamots. 



The seeds almost always abort. The axis of the fruit is hollow. 



This pear ripens in October. If it's ever so slightly overripe, it becomes mealy. 



LV. PEAR TREE with large, somewhat rounded autumn fruit, deep golden yellow (either ashen 

 or whitish). 



MESSIRE-JEAN dore. (PL XXVI) 



This pear tree is grafted on wild stock & on the quince tree. 



The shoots are thick, short, straight, gray, not very speckled and sometimes a little 

 mealy. 



The buds are thick, short, slightly flattened, triangular, very sharply pointed at the 

 tip and fairly close to the branch. Their stems are broad & not very raised. 



The leaves are large, three inches three lignes long and two inches three lignes 

 wide. The midrib curves downward. The denticulation is large, quite deep on the large 

 leaves but not very deep on the others. The petioles are six lignes long. 



The flowers are sixteen lignes in diameter. The petals are nearly oval and concave 

 spoonlike. 



The fruit is big, almost round and more enlarged at the middle than at the ends. 

 The stalk, ten to fourteen lignes long, 



